The top post on the popular Dark Web forum DarknetMarketsNoobs is a pinned compilation of useful links and important previous entries. The helpful post serves well to illustrate just how outdated is the old trope of the lone fraudster working from their basement. Today, no fraudster is an island. Instead, fraudsters are part of an … Continued
Ecommerce fraud is a global problem. On that, everyone agrees. But new research from Riskified shows that merchants and consumers don’t see eye-to-eye on a key issue in fraud prevention. Consumers are not particularly confident in merchants’ ability to combat fraud. To measure the gap between how merchants and consumers view fraud prevention, Riskified conducted … Continued
The 2017 holidays rewrote the eCommerce record books, and once all the data is in we’ll surely find that, as a whole, it was yet another record-setting year for online sales. But along with this surge in eCommerce, we saw CNP fraud popping up in new places and taking new forms. In this post, I’ll … Continued
The holidays are only a few weeks away, and fraud teams are gearing up for yet another record-breaking season; sales forecasts call for a 10% to 16.6% volume increase over last year. To help fraud teams prepare for the order surge, we took a close look at last year’s holiday shopping and fraud patterns. Here’s … Continued
Riskified is pleased to share our ‘Visualizing eCommerce’ series, a new interactive medium our readers can use to review data they don’t usually have access to, mainly around eCommerce fraud. Our first installation is a world map, organized according to approval rate categories. Geographic data is based on IP address. Hovering over each country will … Continued
Managing eCommerce fraud operations is no easy task; whether hiring, training, and managing a manual review team, monitoring approval rates, and optimizing internal rules, a fraud manager’s attention is often drawn to many places at once. With so much on their plate at any given time, it’s easy to understand why merchants are drawn to … Continued
Ecommerce revenue for fashion merchants has been growing at an annual average of 17.3% over the last six years. In 2016 it was worth $73 billion in the US alone, second in sales value only to consumer electronics. But this rapid growth raises the stakes on fraud detection for fashion retailers. When it comes to … Continued
The online gift card market is thriving. Ecommerce sales of gift cards are increasing by 29% YOY, and by 2018, the US gift card market is expected to be worth $160 billion, driven primarily by surging digital gift card sales. Riskified’s work with Fortune 500 retailers who sell gift cards, as well as leading gift card-only merchants … Continued
Last year, to mark International Women’s Day, we researched the role of gender in CNP fraud patterns, and found that males committed fraud at a significantly higher rate than females. This year we decided to revisit the topic, analyzing hundreds of thousands of eCommerce transactions from global digital retailers to reveal some interesting findings about … Continued